.The tender·Confcience; - Cap.I 2. by others. Bu~ chap.I3·I5· to ver.23. much • more: when tome were treading wine~prefFu, • - · bringing in fbeavu, lading ajJu, and brought in burdens into 7erufalem on the :Sabbath~ as if it had been like any other day; He teftified againfl thepartieJ offending~declares his judge– ment and Confcience ag<.tinft thei~praCtice. And to the Noblu and Magiflrates he goes txpoftulating with · th~m for winking at 1 fnch abmes. What evil is thu ye do, and pro– pham th~ Sabbath-day ? Did nat our fathers thuJ ? .and did not our God bring all this lvil .upon uJ, andupo11 thisCitie l yet ye brin,gmore - wtath upon I(rD~el by prophaning the Sabbath. And at lafr he puts forth his coercive powtr, to prevent the like. A gracious heart, if he fu; themorallitieof the Sabbath quefiioned, as now ·it is by fome, he rifeth up for the . . frritt Obfervation of it the more zealoufly. · So agaiq, whep he L1W the Priefts mainte– nanc~ embezded,,the·Levites '!-nd Prid.l:s (the then MiniH:ers)under difefieem and povertie, -/ the PrieH:s Patrimonie devoured by irre– ligious· encroachers , their appropriated .Tithes and fet maintenance detained by. dunghill-minded Profeffours, whofeGain is all their Godlinefr, and who would main- . tain (it may·be) there _was nothing due · tO theril ]ure divim; They muft labour with thdrhands as well as others. The. fervice of the Houf~ of God was neglected, the Le· .vites.(through flich difcouragements) taktn off from their Minifterie , arid diverted to Mechat1id'
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